Clotees-dbier



e. BER GQUIST. CLOTHES DRIER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV- 27. 1920- 1,400,789, Patented Dec. 20, 1921.

Mambo amsr mma/5r GUST BEBGQUIST, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 2t 1921.

Application filed November 27, 1920. Serial No. 426,869.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUsr BERGQUIST, a citizen of Sweden, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Gregon, ha e invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Driers, oi which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes driers, the principal object of which is to provide a device which is especially adapted for use on a heat containing object in order to dry small articles, such, for instance, as towels, napkins, or the like in a kitchen or similar place where it is customary to mount a hea ing object such as a water boiler.

Another object of the invention is to provide a drier which is detachably mounted upon the heating object so as to be readily removable when its use is no longer desired; the device being foldable when not in use so as to occupy a minimum amount of space.

The above and other objects of this invention will be in part described and in part understood from the following description of the present preferred embodiment of the invention taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1, is an elevational view of a drier constructed in accordance with this inven tion illustrating its application, and

Fig. 2, is a bottom plan view of the same.

ln order to illustrate the application of this invention a heating object 3 is provided which is preferably cylindrical in configuration and may consist of a water boiler, smoke pipe, heating pipe, or the like.

The device or" this invention consists especially of a clothes supporting ring 4, which in the present instance, is shown to be of a circular configuration and is relatively larger than the diameter of the heating object 3 and circumscribes the latter as shown in Fig. 1. By making the ring relatively larger in diameter than the diameter of the heating object 3, it will be appreciated the ring will be spaced from said body so as to prevent contact of the clothes wlth the latter. The ring is split and has one end there of enlarged and recessed to provide a tapering socket which receives the correspondingly formed opposite end of the mug. A plurality of ring supporting arms 5 are provided, one end of each of which is convoluted on the ring 4:, while the opposite end of each converges toward the heating object 3 and is then bent downwardly in parallelism with said object as indicated at 6. The de pending portions 6 of said arms comprise terminals which are clamped on the object 3 by means of a clamping band 7, the latter consisting of a pair of semicircular straps, the ends of which are turned outwardly at right angles and detachably connected as indicated at 8. The connecting means in this instance consists of nuts and bolts.

In use, it is apparent that this device may be clamped onto the heating object at any desired point and the clothes engaged with the ring a. The heat radiated from said object will dry the clothes in an obvious manner. The device is readily detachable from the heating object by separating the ring through the exertion of pressure thereon at the point where it is split. The arms 5 may be folded to lie within the ring etso as to occupy a minimum amount of space when not in use.

Various changes may be made by me in this device especially in the proportion and arrangement of parts so as to adapt it for use under different conditions.

What is claimed is:

A clothes drier including a resilient wire strand one end of which is enlarged to provide a taperingsocket, said strand being flexed about a heating body but spaced therefrom and having its other end formed to complement the first said end to be sprung into the latter, supporting arms each of which has one end convoluted on said strand and the opposite end inclined inwardly toward the heating body and then deflected downwardly into parallelism with the latter, and semi-circular straps, embracing the deflected ends of the arms and equipped with bolts adjustable to relatively move the straps for clamping said arms snugly into engagement with the heating object.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GUST BERGQUIST.

'lVitnesses FRED WALLACE, NILs A. PETERSON. 

